Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:15 AM, lee jones wrote: > On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of > thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure > how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to > be precise. But anway; > > Firs

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:15 AM, lee jones wrote: > > Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an atari > ST emulator. I was never familiar with Atari computers, so my dabbling in emulators was very limited. > It runs in dos but has two intresting features - firstly > fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread lee jones
I forgot the link to the "free" windows 3.0 (which so I read was also once a magazine coverdisk demo version) > https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/30-testdrive ljones On 2/1/16, lee jones wrote: > On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of > thinking here. Ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread lee jones
On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to be precise. But anway; Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an a

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > BTW, didn't Google Code kick the bucket? So it's no surprise you can't > reach it. It's dead, Jim. > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html > > "We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:01 PM, G. Potthast wrote: > > Apart from the Google code site there is a Sourceforge site for XFDOS: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/ Ah, you beat me to it! I was just going to mention it. :-) BTW, didn't Google Code kick the bucket? So it's n

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread G. Potthast
Apart from the Google code site there is a Sourceforge site for XFDOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/ Georg -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + R

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread Don Flowers
Apparently my paste/copy was incomplete. Try this: https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Jose Antonio Senna < jasse...@vivointernetdiscada.com.br> wrote: > On 2016-01-27 Don Flowers > XFDOS is the best GUI i have

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread Dennis Holierhoek
When I visited the website a few days back, it was still reachable. But now it has a 404 error. Van: Jose Antonio Senna Verzonden: vrijdag 29 januari 2016 18:26 Aan: FreeDOS users Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install On

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
On 2016-01-27 Don Flowers XFDOS is the best GUI i have use. >https://code.google.com/archive/p/ > nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads I followed this link and all I got was a blank page. I don't know whether this is an issue with my browser or my location, but would you please

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-27 Thread Don Flowers
XFDOS is the best GUI i have used. https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads USB mouse & keyboard works from BIOS and should not be an issue. If you want "old school" opengem works fairly well as does Tandy Deskmate. For opengem unzip using FreeDOS unzip and